Note: You have the option to search just the ToGG website, sites convering related issues, or the entire web. By default the search will include the several thousand pages on related sites.
If you choose to search the entire web, your request will be passed onto the Google search engine.

Important: Studies show that many people using search engines find it difficult to get satisfactory results. While simple one word searches may be easy enough, effective searches are more complicated and different search engines vary considerably in operation. Reading the hints below will help you get the best results from this search engine.

Simple searches

To use this search engine you simply type keywords or phrases in to the search box and then click on the button labled search. After a short while a list of links to pages matching your search will be displayed with the best matches appearing towards the top.

If you don't get satisfactory results you may need to modify your search
using the advanced features but it is not difficult!

Advanced searches made easy

To make an effective seach it is important to know the difference between words and phrases. You might have typed farm trials and found your results included pages that contained both the words farm and trials but not to farm trials themself. In this case farm trials is not simply two words but a phrase. Phrases should be entered in "double quotation marks". ie. "farm trials "

Another important feature is the option of choosing to search for ALL or ANY of the keywords or phrases you typed. If you choose ALL then only the pages that contain every word or phrase you provided will be displayed. If you choose ANY, then pages will be displayed even if only one match was found. While the ALL option (which is the default option) usualy provides the best search, it is often useful to use the ANY option. For example you might look for the phrases "genetic engineering" and "genetic modification" using the ALL option because the terms are generally interchangeable.

Further tips for effective searches

1. All searches are case insensitive and accent insensitive. Searching for cafe will match the lowercase cafe, uppercase CAFE, and the accented café.
2. To make sure that a specific word is always included in your search topic, place the plus (+) symbol before the key word in the search box. To make sure that a specific word is always excluded from your search topic, place a minus (-) sign before the keyword in the search box.
   Example: "direct action" -supermarkets should exclude pages that refer to actions at supermarkets and leave all other references to other direct action. However you would miss documents that talked about direct action but mentioned supermarkets in some over context so this feature should be used with care.
3. You can expand your search using wildcards (*). By typing an * at the end of a keyword, you can search for the word with multiple endings. Example: Try trash*, to find trash, trashed, and trashing.